# Bombay State becomes Maharashtra and Gujarat
**बंबई राज्य से महाराष्ट्र और गुजरात**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/bombay-split-1960/
- Chapter: [The Republic and its states](https://indianepics.online/chapter/republic.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1960 CE
- Where: Mumbai, Maharashtra (18.922, 72.834)
- Tags: state-formation, language

## Summary

The Samyukta Maharashtra and Mahagujarat movements split bilingual Bombay State into Maharashtra and Gujarat on 1 May.

संयुक्त महाराष्ट्र और महागुजरात आंदोलनों के बाद 1 मई को द्विभाषी बंबई राज्य महाराष्ट्र और गुजरात में बँटा।

## Account

Bombay city, claimed by both, went to Maharashtra after an agitation in which more than a hundred people were killed in police firing; Gujarat took Ahmedabad as its first capital. Punjab and Haryana followed the same logic in 1966.

## Sources

- Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 (Act 11 of 1960) (Enacted 25 April 1960, in force 1 May 1960)

## Image

Gateway Of India. Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGateway_Of_India.jpg

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